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Hal Borland Quotes
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Type: Author Quotes Category: American Author Quotes Date of Birth: May 14, 1900 Date of Death: February 22, 1978 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Hal Borland Related Authors: Henry David Thoreau Mark Twain Gertrude Stein Henry Miller Helen Keller Edwin Louis Cole F. Scott Fitzgerald Susan Sontag |
A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart. Hal Borland April is a promise that May is bound to keep. Hal Borland If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees. Hal Borland Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence. Hal Borland Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. Hal Borland No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. Hal Borland Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. Hal Borland Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. Hal Borland The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. Hal Borland You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. Hal Borland |
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